Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Instance Management for SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- Viewing the SQL Server instances and instance groups in instance management
- About registering SQL Server instances
- Configuring SQL Server backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Configuring NetBackup for SQL Server
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Restoring multistreamed SQL Server backups
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped backups (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Protecting SQL Server in high availability (HA) environments
- About using NetBackup to protect SQL Server availability groups
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About NetBackup for SQL Server with database mirroring
- Backup and recovery concepts
- Overview of SQL Server backup and recovery concepts
- About recovery factors for SQL Server
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
- About using batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- About schedule properties (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Backing up read-only filegroups (legacy SQL Server backup policies)
- Performing user-directed operations with dbbackex
- Using bplist to retrieve a list of SQL Server backups
- SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment (legacy SQL Server policies)
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
- NetBackup for SQL dialog box topics
- NetBackup for SQL dialog box fields
- Appendix A. Sample batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- About sample restore batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- Appendix B. Multiplexed backups
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
Registering instances with an instance group
Instance groups provide the following benefits when you create SQL Server policies:
When you add an instance group to a policy, that single policy can back up many instances.
You can configure an instance group to automatically add newly discovered instances to the group, registering instances on the fly. See Registering instances automatically (NetBackup for SQL).
All the instances in the group use the same credentials setting. If you select the setting
, you only need to enter those credentials once.In the Applications utility, you can easily see which policies protect which instance groups.
The following procedure describes how to create an instance group to which you can add instances.
To create an instance group
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand NetBackup Management > Applications > Microsoft SQL Server.
- Right-click Instance Groups and select New Instance Group.
- Provide an Instance Group Name.
- Select the credentials you want to use.
This user account must have certain privileges. More information is available to help determine which option best applies for your environment. See About credentials used with SQL Server Intelligent Policy.
- Click OK.
- To add instances to the group you created, see the following topic.